Bacteria inspired patterns grown with hyperbolic cellular automata

TL;DR

This paper presents three examples of hyperbolic cellular automata that generate expanding patterns resembling bacterial colonies, highlighting a novel intersection of computational models and biological growth patterns.

Contribution

It introduces a new approach using hyperbolic cellular automata to simulate bacterial colony growth patterns, which is a novel application in computational modeling.

Findings

Patterns closely resemble bacterial colony growth

Hyperbolic cellular automata can model biological expansion

Potential applications in biological and computational research

Abstract

In this paper we give three examples of expending patterns defined by hyperbolic cellular automata whose growth seems to be very similar to the growth of colonies of bacteria.